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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1987.

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HE ideal married When she died she left behind

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"My darling, if I leave this one in which both world before you, make certain the man and the woman that we are, in the end, both in- terred in the same tomb....

Hongkong Telegraph. found in each other an un-

THURSDAY, Franuary 10, 1937.

AIR DEFENCE

It has long been realised that

ex-

alloyed happiness through- out their whole lifetime.

Let us at first see if such

a couple can exist, and if so, under what conditions.

in Britain's rearmament schemes, expansion of the Royal

Can it exist? La Rochefou- Air Force must play a promin-cauld, the famous French author, thought not, and his classic ent part. The view was

phrase: "There may be good pressed in the White Paper marriages, but there are no mar- issued last March that "adequate riages to delight," is well enough air defence is the most vital and known. important of our defensive re-

But history proves that La Rochfoucauld was mistaken.

What Do You Think?

What is, in your opinion, the best age to marry?

How many children do you think are the most desirable?

Do you think that young, people should wait until the man has a safe and assured position?

Do Nou think that Ilving with relations may imperit the happiness of a home?

Do you think that married couples should have separate holidaysh

Place the five following qualities-good humour, kindness, physical charm, energy. intelligence in the order you think they should be possessed by a married man.

Place the five following qualities-good humour, physical

charm, attractiveness, domestic ability, tenderness-in the order you think they should he possessed by a wife.

earness. womanly

Thia

care

But continual flirtation is diffi springs not only cult, while jealousy is a danger- C-2720 The English Rose (Merrie quirements," whilst quite re-

from love and ous poison which should only be sensibility, but administered in small doses. cently the Prime Minister as-

also from intul- tion.

Is it possible for a couple to In fact some marriages have serted that "our greatest peril

live happily with one side's boen so perfect that those who You have been a perfect hus- is from the air." In the latest have experienced such deep hap- band to me. Goodbye, do not husband's worries and disperses depends upon the family and The ideal wife discerna her parents? Everything naturally Doll's Song-Taics of Hoff-White Paper to be issued, deal-piness have not been able to sur. live alone; I hope with all my them, but if she comes to his the young married pair. LIGHT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA C-2750 Mannin Veen (Dear Isle of 000 Defence Loan, there is con- nership by the death of the body who will be as attached to and without his being aware of ing with the proposed £400,000,- vive the dissolution of the part heart that you will find some aid she should do so discreetly

In general; however, it would your devoted Mary it. A household dominated by two people enter, marriage they appear not to be desirable. When a woman is seldom a happy one. are both charged with heredi- ·

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siderable reference to aerial de- | other. fence, but the summary which

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France offers two outstanding

has reached Hongkong lacks de- examples-that of the celebrat- So the ideal couple has really Relationships "are further tary characteristics, habits and tail-and-makes it impossible-toed scholar Berthelot, who took existed and doubtless still more helped if the married couple memories. To create an ideal gather whether the programme poison a few hours after his frequently among the unknown possess the virtues of a good couple the two different natures already decided upon is progress wife's death, and that of than among the famous. When temper. Even with the ideal must blend into an entirely new ing according to schedule. This Madame Marcel Sembat, wife of we examine the story of such a couple it is impossible during a and harmonious alloy. The pre- is an issue of the utmost import- the Socialist Minister, who like couple, we observe nearly always long married life to avoid all sence of a mother or mother-in- ance, and it is one concerning husband's decease.

wise committed suicide after her that it began with a love which, 'petty differences.

law tends to preserve the past, little by little, was transformed which there has been consider-

to keep alive sentiments best for- into friendship, tenderness and A man and his wife cannot able criticism at Home. Briga-

confidence.

always hope to agree over their gotten and to retard that neces- dier General P.R.C. Groves, in

respective relatives, on, the Bary blending. Families are AMONG British politicians It must be so because physical choice of their friends, on diet, melting pots of character where a lengthy article to a London

happy households have been passion, except in rare cases, on clothes, on the children's up. poison is too often brewed, and journal, asserts that at the end remarkably numerous. In the cannot last a lifetime. Let us bringing, on the shows they wish every couple should, if possible, of last year thirty-two new garden, for instance, of a house now, then, try to discover some to see nor even on international have its own home. squadrons had been raised, leave near London one may see a little of those qualities which make it politics. ing a further thirty-nine to be romantic monument erected by possible for such great senti- the children of Lord John Rue- ment to be aroused and main- provided in the three months ending on March 31. In other words, the rate of progress maintained up to the end of December would have to be accelerated eightfold in order to complete the programme by the

sell to the memory of the happy tained. married life of their parents.

.

That children help to consoli- date the position of the ideal But if these inevitable dis- couple will not, I think, be dis- turbances take place in a light- puted. Not only are they the hearted atmosphere they will

living symbols of the reality To begin with, it seems that not prejudice the happiness of) Gladstone's married life and not perfect beauty but a certain the couple, rather will they be but they also constitute a topic and permanence of the marriage, Disraeli's were ideal ones. Lady physical charm is essential for a source of good-humoured Beaconsfield said of her hus the attachment to be formed, banter. band: Because of his kindness The institution of marriage my life has been one long joy."

date laid down. Official state- ments issued from time to time And he is reputed to have have created the impression that answered: "We have been mar- everything is proceeding accord- ried thirty years and I have ing to schedule. This is par- never once ceased to love her." ticularly so in regard to recruit- | ----

ing and the provision of plotion of the programme al- aeroilromes, but even, these ready in hand. Regarding statements are queried by first-line machines, figures are General Groves, who asserts quoted showing that the number that many of the aerodromes are existing before the present pro by no means completely equip-gramme began was 580, the ped, whilst there is a world of number to be added was 920, and difference between the numbers up to the end of December only recruited and the numbers 460 of these had been provided. trained. The key figure which These statistics, which are pre would disclose the progress of sumably reliable, certainly dis- the_programme has, according (close a state of affairs which is to this authority, never been dis- not too reassuring, and it may closed. Semi-official assurances be taken for granted that the speak of 1,750 machines for Government is conscious' of the Home defence," as though this present shortcomings. Indeed, number is actually in sight, it may well be that the mam- whereas this is the figure pro- moth plans now envisaged will mised for April, 1989, and will make

specific provision, for only be reached by the addition accelerating the programme, so of 250 machines after the com far an air defence is concerned.

of eternal mutual interest. When they are small they make quar- takes advantage of the early homes where kindly tensings sible because they submerge We all know those pleasant reis dificult and almost impos- stirrings of desire to unite the serve to amuse both sides. To them with the noise of their couple with the strongest bonda. know when to laugh at one's games and their laughter. Later Although there are marriages of self, and, if need be, at one's own they become silent witnesses. be- moral or physical short-cominga, convenience which are happy at troubles and discomforts, fore whom a couple must pre- ones, they are becoming rarer.

fa one of the biggest fac- serve their dignity to remain. To bring about. a lasting tors that ensure domestic con- worthy of respect. alliance the man must be strong.

tentment. In primitive society where physi~. cal strength is indispensable

the male who has to defend to IT may be asked if the married FINALLY, it may be asked couple can remain lovers. Is should married couples family, the woman always sceka it necessary to have in marriage spend all the days of their life out the most powerful husband, as in love, coquetry, the con- together or is it wiser when cir- stant desire to please, and a cor- cumstances permit for them to In more civilised communities, tain art of arousing the jeal take moral courage, resolution and ousies of the other

separate holidays? | A decisiveness turn the scales. A keep them in a state of uncer- person to

difficult question. In youth woman can neither love nor re- tainty?

separations are dangerous, but later sometimes a necessity. spect a man who offers her no support, no stability, and who is There are many shy and retir There is no general rate lacking in will-power.

In the cases of many couples ing men and women who can find I would be in favour, of a few -happiness only in perfect con- days "off" from their married fidence in the other, and who life, but would the ideal couple seek in marriage security above, want them? THE strongest man, however, all things.

And would the ideal couple has moments of weakness or Others become bored with a not find an everlasting joy in weariness. At such times he too peaceful existence and need one another's company until the needs a wife's support and tend anxiety to keep their love awake, last day?